Sentences with phrase «often lone voices»

At first, the critics of orthodoxy were often lone voices that could be quickly silenced.

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This included a letter to Children and Families Minister Sarah Teather — who had blocked the enactment of joint birth registration, despite it already being on the statute books as part of the 2009 Welfare Reform Act — a legislative change for which the Fatherhood Institute has campaigned long and hard (often as a lone voice and in the face of opposition from other quarters).

The lone voice in the wilderness is often ignored.

As you point out, the sugar industry fights very hard to suppress anything negative about sugar, and the few lone voices who speak out about it are often fairly easily discredited as people out on a limb.

Interest in rural education, let alone research dollars to understand and address its challenges, has been nearly nonexistent but for a few visionaries who often felt like lone and neglected voices.

While that category has had many players over the years, Vertu has often been a lone voice within it.

If not the lone voice, we're often the most vigorous in our pursuit of legislation that enhances and protects the American Dream of property ownership.